What's on your bench now?

The money is flowing! Hate it when things snowball like that. It will be worth it in the end.

 

That sucks it doesn’t have spark, hopefully your experience with the aftermarket 2 pc ignition works out better. I’ve tried 2 of them and both failed inside a year.

 

I finally ordered the tank vent for the 346. Guess they really needed that big box.

 

My son put one on the 281 he got. Zero spark. We went back to the original and it fired right up. Good thing is he didn’t pay for it, came w/ the saw so he (for some reason) thought he’d put on the new part. After my experience with one on my 394, that’s definitely one part I will never stray from OEM. When it did run, it was way down on power. When I put a new original on, felt like a muff mod and BGD was done. And it only lasted about a year and a half before it quit.

 

My plan is to try the AM just to get it running, then keep my eyes open for a used OEM. There weren’t any on eBay last time I checked (unless I wanted to spend the coin on another entire saw carcass, which I did not)

 

Probably had the timing off internally, I had one other aftermarket coil I had to advance pretty far to get it to run like it should. Stihl ms 361 all done with that coil also after 3 coils on same saw, ended up sticking a ms 441 coil on it and no problems now 3-4 years later.

 

Exactly what I thought after the change, timing way off.

 

Stuff happened, long story short now I’m going to run a… let’s say “unbranded” velocity stack.

 

Looks like you have been hanging out with eggshooterest , LOL.
The home of " Everything gets a velocity stack"

That fancy adapter must be some of your work.

 

I may have sought his counsel about velocity stacks earlier this week Delrin is easy for me to come by and should hold up.

 

Lol. We may or may not have had a private conversation...or 3.

 

Is it a straight shot down the i.d. or did you put taper down to the carb throat size? Assuming you machined it yourself.

 

It’s got a slight taper in it from where it mounts to the carburetor elbow, up to the I.D. of the filter. It all matches up reasonably well.

 

Aweesome.

Did you turn him on to DDM too. LOL

 

Well you went directly to the source.

Love the Delrin myself , I make a lot of parts from it and it is plentiful at my work. Not to mention it is super easy to machine.

 

I wonder if there’s a market for this? Converting new fine thread clutches to coarse thread. The original clutch on the 61 was very questionable, so this is cheap insurance.

 

I told him about it, yes. Lol

 

Excellent.